Problem Perspectives and Grizzly Bears: A Case Study of Alberta’s Grizzly Bear Recovery Policy

Mama Grizzly and the polar bears.

A recent paper on the matrilineal population history of two sister species, Ursus maritimus (polar bears) and Ursus arctos (brown bears), based on mtDNA sequence analysis, reveals a comparatively recent introgression. The authors propose that it represents a signature of environ mental stress in marginal habitats [1]. In a nutshell, it means that all modern polar bears probably belong to a mate...

A Review of Grizzly Bear Harvest Management in British Columbia

This review builds on the information presented in Hamilton and Austin (2002). The purposes are: 1) to identify and present information on the outstanding scientific and management issues involved in assuring that hunting does not represent a conservation threat to grizzly bear populations and, 2) to outline potential future directions that are under consideration for grizzly bear harvest manag...

Discovery of the Skull of a Grizzly Bear in Labrador

The skull of a small, young adult grizzly bear was discovered in the course of archaeological excavation of an early historic Eskimo house in northern Labrador. This discovery confirms the rumoured presence of Ursus arctm in Labrador in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is suggested that the Labrador grizzly represents an eastward extension of the barren-ground grizzly population acro...

Den selection by grizzly bears on a managed landscape

How Much Lox Is a Grizzly Bear Worth?

Using grizzly bears as surrogates for "salmon ecosystem" function, the authors develop a generalizable ecosystem-based management framework that enables decision makers to quantify ecosystem-harvest tradeoffs between wild and human recipients of natural resources like fish.